MLAs slam plan to reduce Inuit hiring quota for new jail construction

by Derek Neary - November 9, 2018

A firestorm blew through the legislative assembly as the government faced the fury of MLAs concerned about the prospect of lowering Inuit employment ratios in the construction of Iqaluit’s new correctional centre. The Government of Nunavut is bargaining with an Inuit-owned construction company to construct the new correctional centre in Iqaluit and one of the points…